Nigel Si­mon

Dwain Quan Chan and goal­keep­er Ron Alexan­der com­bined to se­cure an un­like­ly 4-3 sud­den-death penal­ty-flicks win for Petrotrin af­ter a pul­sat­ing 5-5 draw with Paragon in their T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onship Men's Open Di­vi­sion semi­fi­nal at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, on Thurs­day.

Paragon looked set to se­cure a spot in to­mor­row's fi­nal af­ter it took a 5-3 lead with eight min­utes left in reg­u­la­tion time be­fore Quan Chan net­ted twice in the fi­nal minute to earn his team a 5-5 draw and send the match to sud­den-death ex­tra-time where both teams failed to score dur­ing the ten-minute pe­ri­od to force penal­ties.

The Oil­men start­ed off bad­ly, with Quan Chan and fel­low na­tion­al play­er At­i­ba Whit­ting­ton hav­ing their penal­ties de­nied by Paragon goal­keep­er Jesse Thomas. How­ev­er, his op­po­site num­ber, Ron Alexan­der, al­so kept out Paragon's Richard Roach and Shel­don Mc Kel­lar's at­tempts for a 0-0 score af­ter two flicks each.

In-form na­tion­al for­ward Wayne Leg­erton, Bri­an Gar­cia and Solomon then con­vert­ed the re­main­ing at­tempts for Petrotrin, while Co­gie But­ler, Akim Tou­s­saint and Kiel Mur­ray were on tar­get for Paragon for a 3-3 score which sent the match in­to sud­den-death penal­ty flicks where Leg­erton again scored for the Oil­men, while Alexan­der kept out Mur­ray's ef­fort to seal the un­like­ly win for the na­tion­al Out­door cham­pi­ons.

Dur­ing the 40-minute reg­u­la­tion time, Leg­erton reg­is­tered a hat-trick for the Oil­men in the eighth, ninth and 29th minute, while Quan Chan got the two oth­ers, both in the 40th. For Paragon, Mc Kel­lar (ninth, 32nd) and Tou­s­saint (12th, 32nd) got two each, and But­ler, the oth­er as ear­ly as the third minute.

To­mor­row (Sun­day) in the fi­nal, Petrotrin, which topped the men's round-robin ta­ble as well, will meet the win­ner of last night's oth­er semi­fi­nal be­tween De­fence Force and Queen's Park. The Women's Open Di­vi­sion semi­fi­nal proved less of a spec­ta­cle, with Stacey Siu Butt scor­ing twice and na­tion­al ju­nior play­er Elise Olton one, for Shandy Carib Mag­no­lias to beat Mar­itime Har­vard Check­ers 3-1 to se­cure a place in to­mor­row's fi­nal against the Paragon/Ven­tures win­ner.

Mag­no­lias and Queen's Park al­so booked their places in the Un­der-21 Women and Mixed Vet­er­ans fi­nals, re­spec­tive­ly. In the Un­der-21 Women's semis, na­tion­al youth team play­er Bri­an­na Govia scored twice and Elise Olton, Gabrielle Per­me­ll and Sha­nia De Fre­itas one each for Mag­no­lias in a 5-2 de­feat of Check­ers while Raphael Govia scored a 33rd minute goal to earn Queen's Park a 3-2 sud­den-death win over Notre Dame in the Mixed Vet­er­ans.

T&THB In­door Cham­pi­onship semi­fi­nal re­sults

Thurs­day:

Un­der-21 Women

Mag­no­lias 5 (Bri­an­na Govia 10th, 10th, Elise Olton 7th, Gabrielle Per­me­ll 14th, Sha­ni­ah De Fre­itas 30th) vs Check­ers 2 (Char­nise Cato 26th, Mar­i­an­na Ma­ta 30th)

Mixed Vet­er­ans

QPCC 3 (Raphael Govia 2nd, 33rd, Paul Weekes 10th) vs Notre Dame 2 (Sel­wyn King 18th, Ken­neth White­man 30th)

Men's Open

Petrotrin 5 (Wayne Leg­erton 8th, 9th, 29th, Dwain Qua.n Chan 40th, 40th) vs Paragon 5 (Shel­don Mc Kel­lar 9th, 32nd, Akim Tou­s­saint 12th, 32nd, Co­gie But­ler 3rd)

Women's Open

Mag­no­lias 3 (Stacey Siu Butt 5th, 26th, Elise Olton 26th) vs Check­ers 1 (Brit­tney Hingh 20th)